Holders for photographic negatives and prints



Feb. 3, 1959 M. c. WARNOW 1,

HOLDERS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES AND PRINTS Filed July 7, 195a RENO v031.:

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Application July 7, 1958, Serial No. 746,960

3 Claims. (Cl. 40-158) The invention herein disclosed relates to holdersfor photographic negatives and prints such as disclosed in copendingpatent application Serial No. 735,609, filed May 15, 1958, and isconcerned particularly with the structure of the holder and the methodof its manufacture.

Objects of the invention are to provide an inexpensive readilymanufactured form of holder which will-serve as a container for thenegative, a support for a print derived from the negative, and which maybe used as a file for the negative and accompanying, identifying printor be mounted on the page of an album or other such support.

Other, special objects of the invention are to provide a simplepractical method for the manufacture of such holders.

Other desirable objects and the novel features through which thepurposes of the invention are accomplished are set forth and will appearin the course of the following specification.

The drawing accompanying and forming part of the specificationillustrates a practical embodiment and the novel series of steps throughwhich this embodiment of the invention is manufactured. Structure andthe steps of manufacture, however, may be modified and changed asregards the immediate illustration, all within the true intent and scopeof the invention as hereinafter defined and claimed.

Fig. 1 in the drawing is a plan view of a blank for forming the body ofthe holder.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the blank coated on one side withpressure sensitive adhesive, with a dividing line at the center whereless or no adhesive is applied.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the adhesive coated face covered with aprotective sheet, severed on the center line, in two separatelyremovable cover sections.

Fig. 4 is a plan showing the covered blank die cut with a thumb notchand rounded corner.

Fig. 5 is a plan showing the opposite face of the die cut blank suppliedat one side with the gum necessary for securing it in folded envelopeform.

Fig. 6 is a plan view showing the blank folded on the gummed side, atthe center line, to form the completed open ended envelope and furtherindicating a negative inserted in the envelope and the cover in thecourse of removal from the face of the enevelope.

Fig. 7 is a front elevation showing a print from the negative applied tothe exposed pressure sensitive face of the envelope, serving then asidentification for the negative held in the envelope.

Fig. 8 is a view of the back face of the envelope with cover sheet beingremoved to enable mounting of the holder in an album or other supportingstructure.

Fig. 9 is a broken front elevation of an album structure with negativeand print holders mounted therein.

Fig. 10 is a view of one of the holders used simply as a filecontaininga negative, but ready for further use to *carry a print of the negativeand if desired to be mounted on the page of an album or other support.

As shown in Fig. .1 the base or body of the holder Ice.

consists of a rectangular sheet of paper or other suitable envelopeforming material 15.

This sheet, as shown in Fig. 2, is partially or completely coated on oneface with pressure sensitive adhesive 16,- preferably with less or noadhesive along the center fold line indicated at 17.

Pressure sensitive adhesive is protected, as shown in Fig. 3, by a coversheet 18 of wax paper or other readily removable material.

In Fig. 3 the cover sheet 18 is shown as severed at 19 in line with thecenter fold line 17. While it may be considered most practical tocompletely cover the pressure sensitive coated face and then to severthe cover sheet on the fold line, it is contemplated that the coversheet may be applied in the form of strips separated at 19 on the foldline of the base envelope forming sheet.

After application of the pressure sensitive adhesive and the readilyremovable cover sheet the blank may be die cut to provide a thumb notch20 in the upper edge and a rounded corner as indicated at 21, Fig. 4.

Following the pressure sensitive adhesive, cover sheet, slitting and diecutting operations, all at one face of the blank, the blank may beturned over .and gummed on the opposite face as indicated at 22 in Fig.5 to make it ready for the envelope formation.

The latter is shown in Fig. 6 where the blank has been folded on thegummed side on the line 23, Fig. 5, to form a pocket 24, Fig. 6, forreceiving a negative 25.

In this completed envelope form cover sheet 18 on the face of theenvelope may be removed to expose the pressure sensitive coating 16 forreception of a print 26 of the negative then contained within theenvelope, as shown in Fig. 7.

The cover strip 18 then on the back of the envelope may be removed asindicated in Fig. 8 to expose the pressure sensitive adhesive 16 andthus enable the envelope, containing the negative and carrying theidentifying print on the face of the same to be mounted on the page 27of an album or other supporting structure, as indicated in Fig. 9.

In this relation the envelope serves as a holder mounted on the page ofan album or other support carrying within it a concealed negative andsupporting on the face of it a print of that negative, identifying andindicating where if desired for application of a negative identifyingprint thereto or for mounting in an album or on any other support.

The thumb notch 20 facilitates removal and insertion of the negatives inthe holders and this is particularly desirable where the negatives areof smaller size than the prints produced therefrom, as indicated inFigs. 6 and 7.

The prints being of the full size of the envelope conceal the envelopestructure so that in an album or even when used only for filing purposesthe print covers the entire face of the envelope and is the part whichis seen by a party searching through an album or a file for particulardesired negatives.

By omitting or reducing the pressure sensitive adhesive along the foldline 17 the base sheet is rendered the more readily foldable and inaddition the edges of the cover sheet 18 are left free at the fold linefor ready separation from the base sheet. By less adhesive along thefold line it is therefore meant either an absence or a reduced amount ofadhesive. Similarly other expressions have been used in a descriptiverather than in a Patented Feb. 3, 1959 limiting sense except as may berequired by limitations in the prior art.

By providing the cover sheet 18 in separate sections, either by severingalong the center line 19 or by applying it in separate strips over thepressure sensitive coated surface, easy, quick removal is facilitatedbecause as the base sheet is folded the cut edges separating the twosections will be exposed and spread apart by the folding action wherethey may bereadily grasped for such removal.

What is claimed is:

1. A holder for a photographic negative and a print identified therewithcomprising a base sheet of envelope forming material having a coating ofpressure sensitive adhesive on one face, a readily removable cover sheetover said pressure sensitive adhesive face, separated on a dividing linecorresponding to an intermediate fold line of the base sheet, a gumcoating on the opposite face of the base sheet at one side of saidintermediate fold line and said base sheet being folded on the gummedside at 4 said intermediate fold line into envelope form conformation.

2. A holder according to claim 1 with less pressure sensitive adhesiveon said pressure sensitive adhesive side of the base sheet along saidintermediate line of folding and in line with said separation line ofthe cover sheet.

3. The invention according to claim 1 with the gum disposed to form theinternal envelope dimensions less than the full size-dimensions of thecompleted envelope and the pressure sensitive adhesive coating disposedto secure a print of the full dimensions of the envelope whereby tocarry a print of the negative sufficient to conceal the supportingenvelope.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS

